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    Texas woman stranded in car in Idaho dairy pond

    BURLEY, Idaho (AP) — A Texas woman may have spent up to a week in a rental car stuck in an Idaho dairy wastewater pond after taking a wrong turn while looking for a hotel in Burley, authorities said.

    Lynn S. Keesler, 61, of Houston, was evaluated by emergency medical technicians but refused to go to the hospital, saying she just wanted "a warm bed and a bath," The Times-News (http://bit.ly/zmW06I reported Tuesday.

    The Cassia County report said Keesler believed she had been stranded for three to five days, but the sheriff's log shows a deputy gave her directions to the hotels in Burley on Jan. 15. She walked to a nearby house for help on Jan. 22.

    Keesler told deputies that after getting directions, she saw water by a dairy and thought it was the Snake River. She told deputies she tried to drive around the outside of the water but got stuck in the mud.

    The first night she was stranded she flashed her headlights all night until the car's battery ran down. Keesler told officers she also honked the horn a couple times when the battery would power up enough.

    She lived on peanut butter M&Ms and water and told officers she stayed in the car because she had been told not to leave her vehicle if she became stranded. Keesler finally went for help Sunday after the settling pond started filling with water.

    The dairy's foreman told deputies that workers started filling the settling ponds on Friday. When deputies arrived, the ponds were full and the car wasn't visible.

    Representatives from Enterprise Rent-A-Car told deputies Keesler had rented the vehicle on Dec. 8 and was supposed to return it on Jan. 5.

     

    80 comments

    • John Q Galt  •  3 mths ago
      America seems to be in need of Emergency Mental Care. This is one of our Elderly that got into trouble and most of you are making fun of her plight. What if it were your Grandmother or Father that got lost and stranded? How would you feel about that? Many of you are in need of serious mental care and somthing tells me you will not seek it. Instead of more prisons, maybe we should convert a lot of them to mental wards and start the Baker Act process. Do something stupid, you go pass go to the mental help ward.
    • SAVAGESAXON  •  3 mths ago
      them Texas Women are tough on cars and hell cats on any road they get on. she had a lot of callouses on her seat to sit there that long, but eventually, every Texan gets up and moseys on down the road. an empty bag of m&m's and a rising tide of cow swamp water is just as good a reason as any. come on back home, these is lyne times and it just aint the same here without cha. IR CON DIOS.
    • U Hairy Tick U  •  Delaware, Ohio  •  3 mths ago
      Gotta believe we just met Texass' next Presidential offering, judging by what I've seen.
    • E  •  3 mths ago
      When is 61 elderly?
    • Eric Somerville  •  Chicago, Illinois  •  3 mths ago
      I hope Enterprise rentals gives her a break. Glad she decided to finally get out of the car when she did 4 this story could have had a way worse ending.
    • A Yahoo! User  •  Dallas, Texas  •  3 mths ago
      Rick Perry's sister?
    • Wheels  •  3 mths ago
      I just hope she got the insurance.
    • Who am I  •  3 mths ago
      I can understand not getting out in the middle of the night, but surely she could see where she was in the daytime, right? But continued to sit in the car? La La La La La La.. wonder if she had a deck of cards and got totally involved in playing Solitaire.....
      • DR 3 mths ago
        If she did have a deck of cards, it was a card short.
    • oldgoat  •  3 mths ago
      The car was supposed to be returned on Jan. 5, but she was asking for directions to somewhere on Jan. 15.

      Something ain't right here!
    • Sunshine Connie  •  Phoenix, Arizona  •  3 mths ago
      And she has a license to drive?
    • Fred  •  Meriden, Connecticut  •  3 mths ago
      One word...Bizarre!
    • Carol  •  Pullman, Washington  •  3 mths ago
      Hope she purchased the rental car insurance cuz that car is definitly a piece of @#$%^ now.
    • sal  •  Whittier, California  •  3 mths ago
      reminds me of the woman that called 911 because she was locked inside her car.
    • Mantastic  •  Wichita Falls, Texas  •  4 mths ago
      Texas is so big and long, she thinks she's still driving in Texas. lol
      • Bury Your Competition 4 mths ago
        I bet Idaho doens't have sewage water pouring down their streets like it does in Houston. YUCK

        I'll never go back there, disguisting city filled with trash, pollution, pot holes everywhere, and slums.
    • Leslie  •  4 mths ago
      Oh my, I want to make fun of her, but I just feel bad.
    • JustMag  •  3 mths ago
      This is an example of just being too stupid and getting to be 61.
    • Starshine  •  Minneapolis, Minnesota  •  4 mths ago
      The dates don't add up...she got directions from a deputy 10 days AFTER she was supposed to have returned the car.
      Weird story, weird lady, weird all the way around.
    • John  •  4 mths ago
      Yep. Peanut butter M&M's are pretty awesome.
      • someone 4 mths ago
        so good you can live off of them!!
    • sis  •  Everett, Washington  •  3 mths ago
      she thought water by the dairy was the Snake river? Apparently she had little experience of rivers.
    • someone  •  San Antonio, Texas  •  4 mths ago
      Yeah, you should stay with the vehicle should you become stranded, IF you are in the middle of nowhere. If you can walk to a house or a road that sees traffic, DO IT!! Oh, and to Texas haters, Houston isn't exactly the crown jewel of Texas...
      • weimarliberal 4 mths ago
        There are no jewels in TexASS.
      • Soo Do Nym 4 mths ago
        Any rivers or bayous in Houston may resemble this pond. Let's keep Texas haters thinking the entire state looks like that so they will stay home.
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